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MDGs in Kosovo
Millennium Development Goals - 2015
The UN Global Conferences held in the 1990s raised global social, economic and environmental issues facing both developing and developed countries in the world today. Their findings and recommendations, as contained in individual action plans for national governments, represent an important basis for UN activities at the country level.
They contain negotiated commitments of all UN member states and specific strategies derived from the collective experiences of governments, civil society representatives, and UN system agencies. They identify common crosscutting themes underlying the broader goals of sustainable development and poverty eradication, providing a basis for enhancing the quality and impact of country-level development efforts. In a joint effort, each member country pledges to implement the action programmes agreed upon in accordance to its priorities.
Millennium Summit and Millennium Declaration
In September 2000, 147 heads of State and Government – and 191 nations in total, including Albania – adopted the Millennium Declaration. The Declaration outlines peace, security and development concerns and mainstreams a set of inter-connected and mutually reinforcing development goals into a global agenda. As part of the preparation of the Road Map report on the implementation of the Millennium Declaration, discussions were held with the UN, IMF, OECD and the World Bank with a view to develop a comprehensive set of indicators for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
The MDGs to be achieved between 1990 and 2015 include:
• Halving extreme poverty and hunger
• Achieving universal primary education
• Promoting gender equality
• Reducing under-five mortality by two-thirds
• Reducing maternal mortality by three-quarters
• Reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB
• Ensuring environmental sustainability
• Developing a global partnership for development,
with targets for aid, trade, debt relief
Why Millennium Development Goals?
The UN recognizes the formidable challenge countries are faced with in implementing these action programmes. For this reason, it seeks to intensify its collective contribution to national development efforts. In order to help focus national and international priority setting, goals and targets should be limited in number, be stable over time, and communicate easily to a broad audience.
Millennium Development Goals and Kosovo
Kosovo representatives were not sitting at the Millennium Summit and thus have not signed its declaration. The Goals that stand out from this declaration are nonetheless relevant to the situation in Kosovo and represent a set of national political commitments to help focus many of country’s own long-term development priorities. Adopting, tailoring, and monitoring the Millennium Goals are a sure way not only to enhance human development in Kosovo, but also to ensure that Kosovo's population is not left behind in this global effort.
To help the Kosovo Government use the MDGs as a tool for development, in 2004 UN Kosovo prepared a baseline MDG Report, entitled ‘Where will we be in 2015?’ The Second Millennium Development Goals report was launched on 17 of November 2007. The second report analyzed the probability of achieving the MDG’s by 2015 in Kosovo. Bellow is the data of baseline report and the probability of achieving them based on the Second Millennium Development Goals Report for Kosovo.
On 17 October 2008, the Assembly of Kosovo has, through a resolution endorsed the Millennium Declaration which affirms institutional commitment to meeting Millennium Development Goals by 2015, and calls on governing institutions, civil society, and business community to contribute towards mainstreaming these goals into Kosovo’s development agenda.
The endorsement of Resolution followed after a series of meetings within the umbrella of the
platform of cooperation on Millennium Development Goals which is consisted of
Assembly of Kosovo, civil society, business community and UN Agencies operating
in Kosovo.
Goal 1: Eradicate Extreme poverty
Proportion of population below $0.85 per day - 12%
Source: World Bank (2001)
Probability: probably; potentially; unlikely; insufficient data
Goal 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education
Net enrolment ratio in primary education
97%
Source: UNICEF (2001)
Probability: probably; potentially; unlikely; insufficient data
Projects Goal 2
Goal 3: Promote Gender equality and women empowerment
Ratios of girls to boys in primary and secondary
Grades 1-5: 0.89
Grades 6-9: 0.87
Grades 10-12: 0.82
Source: Ministry of Education (2003)
Probability: probably; potentially; unlikely; insufficient data
Goal 4: Reduce Child Mortality
Infant (0-1 year) mortality rate
35 per 1,000
Source UNDP (2002)
Probability: probably; potentially; unlikely; insufficient data
There are no running UNDP project related to goal 4
Click for UNFPA Kosovo web site
Goal 5: Improve maternal health
Maternal mortality ratio
23 per 100,000 births
Source: WHO/UNICEF (2002)
Probability: probably; potentially; unlikely; insufficient data
There are no running UNDP project related to goal 5
Click for UNFPA Kosovo web site
Goal 6: Combat HIV/Aids and malaria
HIV prevalence among 15- to 24-year-old
(Estimated: less than 2 cases) N/A
Probability: probably; potentially; unlikely; insufficient data
Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
Proportion of land area covered by forest
41%
Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning (2003)
probably; potentially; unlikely; insufficient data
Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development
From 1999 to 2002, bilateral donors have made commitments in the amount of €2.3 billion for budgetary support, reconstruction, and peace implementation activities, while an additional €214 million was estimated to have been spent in 2003.59
Donors included EU member states and the European Commission, the United States, Switzerland, Japan, Canada and other non-EU bilateral donors and financial institutions. Out of this amount, 84% went to reconstruction, 11% to budget support, and 5% to peace implementation activities.
Probability: probably; potentially; unlikely; insufficient data
Press releases
Where will Kosovo be in 2015 – will there be extreme poverty in Kosovo in 2015
UN Agencies present their reports to Kosovo Assembly
Cana visits UNDP Kosovo
Gjakova/Djakovica Municipality launches MDG development plan